News

• 14 November 2005
  VATICAN - The new Blessed Charles De Foucauld, Maria Pia Mastena and Maria Crocifissa Curcio, “in different ways consecrated their existence to Christ and they re-propose to every Christian the sublime ideal of holiness”: Pope Benedict XVI ‘s address at the end of the Beatification Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints presided on Sunday 13 November a Beatification Mass in St Peters and at the request of the Pope read the ...
• 14 November 2005
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI at the Angelus says “all the baptised are called to perfection in the Christian life: priests, religious and lay people, each according to their own specific vocation” Vatican City (Fides Service) - The beatification of Charles De Foucauld, Maria Pia Mastena and Maria Crocifissa Curcio confirms once again what was said by the Second Vatican Council that “all the baptised are called ...
• 14 November 2005
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI to the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Babylon: “may your beloved country, despite the present difficult situation, not lose heart but continue on the path to reconciliation and peace” Vatican City (Fides Service) - An encouragement to all the citizens of Iraq not to lose hope in the present difficult situation but to continue resolutely “on the path to reconciliation and peace” was addressed by th ...
• 14 November 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “The Church imposes nothing, nor does she seek special interests, but wishes only to be at the service of humanity witnessing and proclaiming Jesus Christ light of the nations”: Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe addresses participants at 1st University Eucharistic Congress Murcia (Fides Service) - “The Church must reach out to all men and women, call them to the faith and announce to them the Good News of salvation”: this concept was restated on Saturday 12 November in an intervention ...
• 14 November 2005
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - National directors of Pontifical Mission Societies in English speaking Africa meet in Lusaka: “providential moment because it enabled the participants to know each other and various pastoral situations, share experiences in mission, and plan missionary animation and cooperation” Lusaka (Agenzia Fides)- The Regional meeting of the National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies for the English Speaking Africa for 2005, took place in Lusaka, Zambia from the 24th October to 2nd November. The ...
• 14 November 2005
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Catholic Bishops of Kenya encourage people to take part in the referendum on the Constitution and launch an appeal for non violence Nairobi (Fides Service)- In a pastoral Letter addressed to “Dear brothers and sisters in Christ and all people of good will”, the Catholic Bishops of Kenya have urged people to take part in the referendum on the Cons ...
• 14 November 2005
  EUROPA/SPAIN - Two thousand people attend Mass to close the 1st International University Eucharistic Congress in Murcia. Participants vow to promote “a culture of the Eucharist” which puts God at the centre of life Murcia (Fides Service) - The 1st International University Eucharistic Congress organised by the Cathlic University of Murcia with the theme "the Eucharist heart of Christian life and source of the Church’s evangelising ...
• 14 November 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Successful demonstration to protest against education reforms: Spain’s new social movement is not afraid or ashamed to take part in public life to defend the rights of thousands of families Madrid (Fides Service) - “The demonstration on Saturday 12 November showed that Spain has a new social movement which produces realistic alternative and coherent proposals. A movement which feels no fear or shame takin ...
• 14 November 2005
  ASIA/HONG KONG - At the Year of the Eucharist closing Mass Bishop Joseph Zen of Hong Kong said the providential event marked “a new beginning for our diocese” Hong Kong (Fides Service) - During a solemn Mass to close the special Year of the Eucharist, on 6 November in Christ the King parish church, Hong Kong, the Catholic Bishop of Hong Kong Joseph Zen said the year had been a ...
• 14 November 2005
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Australia’s ecumenical movement magazine inUnity on-line Sydney (Fides Service) - Australia’s ecumenical magazine InUnity has an edition on line: stories, events, news from the Christian Churches on the Newest of continents, joint celebrations in which the ecumenical movemen ...
• 14 November 2005
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - The Word of the Gospel over the air reaches Bangladesh’s poorest of the poor: Radio Veritas Bengali programmes marks 25 years of service Dacca (Fides Service) - Most Bangladeshi Christians are extremely poor like the majority of country’s citizens and live in extremely difficult conditions. In this situation a radio programme can be a ray of hope and a ...
• 14 November 2005
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - “Christians feel like foreigners in their own country”, says Catholic Bishop after recent attacks on churches - National Day of Protest and Prayer Lahore (Fides Service) - Pakistani Christians are shocked and frightened after two days of anti-Christian violence in Punjab. On 12 November at 10.30 in the morning at Sangla Hill, about 70 km west of Lahore, a large gan ...
• 14 November 2005
  AFRICA/SUDAN - UNHCR starts operation to repatriate Sudanese refugees from Central African Republic Khartoum (Fides Service)- In view of the start of organised repatriation - at the end of November, of the first of hundreds of thousands of refugees originally from southern Sudan at present sheltering in neighbouring co ...
• 14 November 2005
  ASIA/JORDAN - Amman after the suicide bombings: international press review Amman (Fides Service) - Thousands of Jordanians gathered in mosques on Friday to commemorate those killed in three suicide bomb explosions in Amman, on 9 November. People voiced anger and fear that terrorism may have mo ...
• 12 November 2005
  Instrumentum mensis Octobris pro lectura Magisterii Summi Pontifici Benedicti XVI, pro evangelizatione in terris missionum The celebration of the 11th General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the theme “Eucharist, source and summit of the Church’s life and mission” an event which closed the Year of the Eucharist was the central eve ...